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PM GARIB KALYAN PACKAGE...
PM GARIB KALYAN PACKAGE...

TO ENSURE THAT NO ONE GOES
TO ENSURE THAT NO ONE GOES

TO BED HUNGRY.
TO BED HUNGRY. 20 In the interest
of 13.62 crore
families,
million women Jan Dhan MGNREGA
account holders received Rs minimum wage
500 per month directly into their raised from Rs 182
accounts for three months. to Rs 202
A monthly pension of Rs 1000 paid to 3 crore
n The country was preparing to fight a elderly, widows, and disabled people.
global disaster like Covid in 2020, when
we were under strict lockdown. Another
concern was combating hunger and 8.7 crore farmers received assistance of Rs
2000 in their accounts under the PM Kisan
poverty in addition to disaster relief. To Yojana,in the first week of April.
address this concern, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi announced Prime
Minister's Garib Kalyan Package worth n Instructions to state governments
more than Rs 1.70 lakh crore in March to establish a construction workers'
2020, with the goal of ensuring that no welfare fund
one goes to bed hungry or suffers...
n Free cylinder under Ujjwala scheme.
n 24% contribution to the EPF account
KEY FEATURES OF THE PACKAGE of 43 lakh employees.
Health cover of Rs 50 lakh for health
workers fighting COVID. The Pradhan
Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana, which Those who know me also understand me. I
provides 5 kg of wheat or rice and 1 kg of am not here for myself or my loved ones. I
pulses free of charge to 80 crore people am here for the poor. I was born in poverty
every month during COVID.It is the world's and I have lived in poverty. I understand the
largest free rationing scheme. According
to International Monetary Fund, it saved a pain of the poor.
major fraction of India's population from -Narendra Modi, Prime Minister
falling into extreme poverty during COVID. Initiating the Garib Kalyan Yojana

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